a friend saw it at the edinburgh film festival and loved it, but said it was the stuff of nightmares. i also read a review that said the critic couldn't work out if gainsburg and defoe are really good or really bad actors. despite having a wee crush on willem defoe, i kind of understand what they mean.

This review's comment about the point of the BBFC is interesting...."The nastiness, meanwhile, is so nasty that it leaves one wondering what the British Board of Film Classi fication (BBFC) thinks it is for"